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In order to get shiny new trains and big public infrastructure projects like this, you need to pay a lot of tax, and this model does not go down well with the American electorate, generally speaking.

In the 80's and 90's you would pay a lot of money for a cassette deck that would minimise hiss. Here we are in 2015 adding it in artificially.

Brit here wondering how this shift within the industry will affect the BBC. We own a screen, Netflix subscription and Chromecast, and do not pay for a TV License. While this setup is not even remotely…

This does not scale. It might work for a few people in a population of thousands, but beyond that false positives are going to be a real problem.

Humans are not logical animals when it comes to the judgement of risk of harm. Sadly, the only way to counter this (public awareness campaigns, education) are not happening, in fact the reverse is hap…

If I was that paranoid, I'd encrypt the files. However I trust Amazon not to look at the contents of S3 buckets (being caught doing so would severely damage their business).

I recently built one with my raspberry pi and the camera module. It was stupidly easy, all the difficult parts (motion detection, saving short video recordings) are all done for you. I upload everythi…

One thing that affects perception of flavour more than anything else is how hungry and thirsty you are. Not that the orange juice in Marrakech isn't great (I've had it), but if you're r…

For such a legendary mathematician, it does beg the question of why his old notes were not pored over before.

Presumably this means all passwords need to be stored in plaintext (or two-way encrypted, which is essentially the same thing at the end of the day)?

2 minutes is way too long. My mouse stops working in the middle of an intense flow? When I'm rushing a piece of work for a deadline? When I'm in the middle of a game? Stopping for 10 seconds…

The used to be defined as one kg of water, but it is not an official SI unit (it is part of the SI accepted metric system, which does not require such rigorous definitions).

I can find you a similarly sized blank area of wall on any building, including St Pancras. Sure, it'll have denser tiling (bricks instead of concrete tiles), but as far as I'm concerned ther…

AFAIK that building (the old Camden Coucil offices) have already been torn down. Or do you mean the British Library (which is excellent!)?

Other buildings almost pulled down because they were considered eye sores: * The Eiffel Tower * The Golden Gate Bridge * Battersea Power Station etc. etc.

I find it funny we like and encourage the ageing of certain building materials, but not others. How long will it be before we're finding ways to age concrete faster? This thread contains stories …

Of the old buildings that survive, a higher proportion have gargoyles. See my above comment about only the nicer buildings surviving. Wandering around London in 1600 you'd probably see a similar …

That sounds very much like an urban myth!

I reckon people have always had this criticism. The scale of 'human scale' has always needed to go up as there are more humans on the planet. Just as bricks gave a leap in the sizes of build…

> people prefer adorned surfaces to huge flat stark unadorned ones Look through the images in the article and show me one huge, flat, unadorned surface. Building materials all go in and out of fash…

Disclosure: I am a big fan of brutalism. I had no idea that there was stuff like this in Paris. I'm almost tempted to go out and tour it - it's beautiful. In Britain, where I live, there is …

Can someone update the link? Pebble's official blog post has gone live now: https://blog.getpebble.com/tag/pebble-time-round/ …